Das Wunder der Heliane

Erich Wolfgang Korngold spoke of his “masterpiece”: THE MIRACLE OF HELIANE which sums up everything that defines Korngold's musical theater - and goes one step further in terms of dimensions: a huge score and orchestra, intoxicating pathos and highly expressive harmonies that work with the play shimmering colors of polytonality - music of gripping drama and great sensuality. The Hamburg premiere in 1927 was successful and more than a dozen other houses put the latest work by the opera composer, who was next to Richard Strauss, on their repertoire. With the ban on the performance of the Jewish Korngold imposed by the Nazis, DAS WUNDER DER HELIANE completely disappeared from the repertoire - to this day. The story of the ice-cold ruler without the ability to love, his wife Heliane, who gives herself to a Dionysian stranger, and a people waiting for a redeeming miracle, is a fairytale and timeless. Marc Albrecht, who has been closely associated with the house for many years, wakes Korngold's great, opulent and blooming music from the Sleeping Beauty slumber.